The Houdini Escape

The Houdini Escape

Author: Clifford Riley

Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1921989343

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Young Janus Harry Houdini must come up with the trick of his life to escape the Vespers.


Silent Night (The 39 Clues: Cahill Files)

Silent Night (The 39 Clues: Cahill Files)

Author: Clifford Riley

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-12-25

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0545535247

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A brand new holiday adventure from the world of The 39 Clues! The year is 1914 and war is raging in Europe. Eager to win glory for the Lucian branch, sixteen-year-old Rupert Davenport (Ian Kabra's ancestor) sneaks off to France to join the fighting. But the reality of battle is unlike anything Rupert imagined. Even if he survives the bullets and explosions, he'll have to face an even deadlier threat: the Vespers-the Cahill family's rivals who are plotting a dangerous scheme behind enemy lines. Yet just when Rupert's about to lose hope, Christmas Eve arrives and Rupert witnesses something that changes everything he thought he knew about war . . . and his own family. Is it a holiday miracle? Or a twisted game designed to destroy the Cahills?


The Submarine Job (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 2)

The Submarine Job (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 2)

Author: Christina McTighe

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 0545457297

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A brand new adventure from the world of The 39 Clues! After 500 years, the Cahill family's most dangerous secrets are about to be revealed. Read at your own risk . . . Fourteen-year-old Fiske Cahill thinks he's safe when he hides away on the world's first nuclear submarine . . . until he realizes there's a Vesper on board. Does he have what it takes to stand up to a ruthless enemy?


Spymasters (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files)

Spymasters (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files)

Author: Clifford Riley

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0545620805

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Three amazing adventure stories from the Cahill vault! Read at your own risk. In 1814, redcoats burned the White House to the ground. In 1889, Harry Houdini discovered a trick that would save his life. In 1955, the U.S. launched the world's first nuclear submarine. And one family pulled the strings behind the scenes at each of these events: the Cahills -- the most powerful family the world has ever known.Now the Cahills have opened their vault and dangerous secrets are pouring out. This volume contains three stories previously published as ebook adventures, THE REDCOAT CHASE, THE SUBMARINE JOB, and THE HOUDINI ESCAPE, three stories that will change history as we know it forever. Flee alongside a young Cahill as Washington burns, unlock Houdini's magic, and stow away with young Fiske Cahill on a desperate mission that could cost him his life.Venture into the vault if you dare. But don't say we didn't warn you.


The Houdini Escape (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 4)

The Houdini Escape (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 4)

Author: Clifford Riley

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 0545457319

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A brand new adventure from the world of The 39 Clues! After 500 years, the Cahill family's most dangerous secrets are about to be revealed. Read at your own risk . . . Young Harry Houdini's family is eager for a fresh start in America, but secrets from their past have followed them to New York. When the aspiring magician is kidnapped by a dangerous enemy, the Vespers, Houdini discovers a secret talent: death-defying escapes. Will his rare talent allow him to survive the attack? Or will it get him into deeper trouble than he ever imagined?


The Political Brain

The Political Brain

Author: Drew Westen

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2008-05-06

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1586485997

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The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists -- and Democratic campaign strategists. The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. That's why only one Democrat has been re-elected to the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt -- and only one Republican has failed in that quest. In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. Westen shows, through a whistle-stop journey through the evolution of the passionate brain and a bravura tour through fifty years of American presidential and national elections, why campaigns succeed and fail. The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions. Westen turns conventional political analyses on their head, suggesting that the question for Democratic politics isn't so much about moving to the right or the left but about moving the electorate. He shows how it can be done through examples of what candidates have said -- or could have said -- in debates, speeches, and ads. Westen's discoveries could utterly transform electoral arithmetic, showing how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years -- such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can't change the structure of the brain. But you can change the way you appeal to it. And here's how


Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 6)

Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 6)

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0545344727

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International bestseller David Baldacci pens the stunning conclusion to Cahills vs. Vespers! It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, began a global treasure hunt, determined to bring back whatever Vesper One needed, so long as it kept the hostages safe.But when they deliver the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover Vesper One's terrifying endgame. The objects he demanded are vital pieces in a Vesper plot that will harm millions of innocent people. Now the two siblings and their friends are in an all-out sprint to stop Vesper One . . . before the whole world goes BOOM.


The Black Book of Buried Secrets

The Black Book of Buried Secrets

Author: Mallory Kass

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780545285049

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A guide to the characters and situations in "The 39 Clues" outlines the Cahills' secrets, including hidden facts, strategies, agents, lost founders, secret bases, and scandals, as well as information about all branches of the family.


The Redcoat Chase (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 3)

The Redcoat Chase (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files, Book 3)

Author: Jacqueline Reitzes

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 0545457300

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A brand new adventure from the world of The 39 Clues! After 500 years, the Cahill family's most dangerous secrets are about to be revealed. Read at your own risk . . . With the British marching on Washington under the command of a Vesper General, it's up to a young Madrigal in 1812 to save a treasure hidden in the White House. However, the enemy will stop at nothing to seize the artifact, even if it means burning the city to the ground.